grass cutting

First cut of the year.  A bit long, so needed to strim a fair bit too.

Wood cutting continues

I've been back in the forest felling, logging and moving trees.  My friend Henri needed a hand, and more importantly, I needed his tractor to pull down the last handful of trees on my plot.
Henri has an awful lot of trees and about 3 weeks to get them felled.
So I've worked 2 'french' days with him, which starts around 1030 for an hour, then 3pm 'til 6.  The hardest part of the day is the aperitifs which are compulsory, and finish anytime between 7 and 8.

Field drains

With all the recent rain, it's been getting a bit soggy below the orchard.  There is a natural hollow and the rain sort of gathers in the hollow and then runs in a straight line down hill, under the log pile, and is then channeled into a bund created 4 years ago during some storms.  A filed drain in the bund runs this off to a ditch.

Well, we decided that another field drain is required from the start of the hollow to the ditch.  About 13m.  As it's supposed to be a field drain, it's not very far below the surface - say 100mm.  80mm pipe.

In the picture it runs from the grey square in the foreground to the ditch.  The square is a drain cover to keep a hole/sump open that leads to the drain.